NA speaker leaves for France

Published June 20, 2005

ISLAMABAD, June 19: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Sunday left for France on a four-day official visit. He will address the plenary sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

He will participate in the committee hearing on the follow-up to the UN Millennium Development Goals debate.

The speaker will also meet African delegation at Strasbourg and the vice-chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council.—PPI

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